"Just think of Woody Guthrie
and Lyle Lovett taking Mark Twain on a picnic facing off
with Jimmie Rodgers and Louis Armstrong on a hot, dusty afternoon
in the Mississippi Delta" and you've got a good idea of Mark Brine's sound.

Singer/songwriter, vocalist,
guitarist, and yodeler, Mark hails from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where
he was part of the 60's folk scene. His rich, authentic roots sound was
developed in Nashville and America's south, where he continually impressed
musicians who can detect authenticity (or lack of it). Despite having spent
eleven years in Nashville and having played at the Grand Ole Opry with
Hank Snow's band, Mark will say he is not a "country" artist, but a blend
of folk, country, and blues. He won the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festivaltalent
contest in 1979 and was the first folk-oriented artist to be included on
"The Tape", produced and distributed by the New Music Seminars, NYC in
1986. The single "New Blue Yodel" led to two preliminary
Grammy
nominations in 1992, for "Best Country Music Vocalist" and "Best Country
Song". Mark has also become an author, releasing "The Carol", an audio
book with folk music, which was thirteen years in the making.

His newest album release
of classic Americana, New Blue Yodel, (<resigned> Records),
was made to "sate the roots-starved music lovers of the '90's". Tom Pomposello
president of <re:signed>, was struck by the purity of Mark's throwback
country sound and teamed up with him to make the album. (In addition to
running Pomposello Inc., a New York City-based sound design and production
company, Pomposello was a protege of Mississippi Fred McDowell and is a
blues veteran himself.) Working with ten sparkling Brine originals with
some traditional tunes thrown in (Stephen Foster, Fred Rose), Pomposello,
Brine and a wild cast of musicians crafted a rich mix of early century
yodeling, smoky blues and folk raconteuring with an edge heard only below
14th Street.

A recent issue of Citypaper
(Baltimore)
perhaps sums it up best. "Brine knows his stuff well enough to know that
there was a time in this country when blues, country, jazz, gospel, and
popular song were not nearly as isolated from each other as they are today."
Mark's songs live in an entirely different, intangible place you can't
find on a map... a place where some people are, in fact, shy! Where life
is still precious and significant and death is still a heartbreak that
can shatter a soul.. .where a down 'n out singer is still standin' at the
intersection.. just try'n t' fig're how t' make a meal."

What people are saying
about ...

Mark Brine

"Mark Brine plants both feet
in American traditions, wears his heart on his sleeve, and his head...
well, its in a very unusual place. His phrasing and his sliding yodel will
stick in your head long after first hearing. Brine is a genuine true blue
folk singer, with no apologies."- Marilyn Rea BeyerMusIc Director WUMB-FM(Boston, April 1997)

"Mark Brine may originally
hall from Cambridge, MA, but to hear him sing and play you'd assume he's
been slouching on collapsing front porches and wandering dusty back roads
all his life."- Lee Gardner CITY PAPER (Baltimore, February 1996)

"Just think of it as Woody
Guthrie and Lyle Lovett taking Mark Twain on a picnic somewhere in the
heart of the Mississippi Delta. You know the place, a place of earth, grass,
hickory smoke, cool water and so many different colors of blue."- DAVID THOMPSONLiner notes of "New Blue
Yodel" 1996 (Baltimore, February 1996)

"A fine young man that I
think has got a great future!"- HANK SNOWGrand Ole Opry 1992 performance
with Hank Snow and the Rainbow Ranch Boys

"Wild Blue Yodeler"- BILLBOARD (September 12, 1992)

..... his Jimmie Rodgers
tribute record was one of the great listening experiences of this reviewer's
year to date. A DiSCovery Award winner, for sure."- Robert K. OermannMUSIC ROW(February 23,1992)